General update
Trey and Tarek’s work this week was focused on physical design and fabrication of parts. Tarek designed and 3D printed a stand for the stereo camera so Liam can continue testing on the device. Trey designed some parts for the gantry to be able to hold the electromagnet, which Tarek sent to 3D print at the IDeATe printers. Progress this week relied on these parts, but IDeATe has not yet approved and printed these parts, which has bottlenecked work for the team this week. Nonetheless, Tarek worked on chess logic code, Trey worked on cutting the gantry rails and beginning assembly of the gantry, and Liam worked on getting both depth and images from the camera. He is currently working on having two python programs to interface together due to version incompatibilities.
We also individually spent time working on our ethics assignments, which was time consuming.
We are still aiming to have a demo-able gantry by next weekend. At the very least, we will be able to move the gantry to a given coordinate and control the electromagnet.
Potential risks and risk management
No new risks this week. 3D printing was bottlenecked but we are working on resolving that with IDeATe or using TechSpark to get the parts printed and resume work within the next 48 hours.
Overall design changes
No design changes this week.